production: cast

Today begins the first day of production. There were no major things I accomplished but I made sure to do a run down. I discussed the movie with favored actors. I went over with my partner who we would be choosing to act. After making sure of our choices I continued on. First I talked with my brother Zeke. I showed him the written script and let him go over it. After he had time to read, I went over characters. I asked if he would consider being the father in the movie. He was in media before and in addition to acting in his own films, he acted in others. In every film he did really well in portraying his character. He played a toxic, abusive boyfriend in one film and it was very convincing. Knowing that he was able to play this sort of role had me confident in his skills acting as an abusive father. After discussing everything with Zeke, I was able to secure him in the role. I then talked to Lily. I discussed the story and daughter character. After hearing what I had to say she was really interested in the story and happy to take part in it. Finally that left simply the drug dealer. Wren and I thought it best to keep that simple, as it is was not a very heavily shown character. With this in mind, we discussed just having wren play the role as we saw fit.


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